Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 8:15

15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them , and fled by the way of the wilderness .

i. e. Fled from them, as it were for fear of a second blow: and peradventure some of them might be wounded, though none were killed; and might make that the pretence of their fleeing away.

Which lay between Ai and Iericho, whither they now seemed to flee.